Quiz Time

1. What is measured in dols?

2. Name this mythical creature which is said to be the offspring of the lion and the eagle 3. 75 miles (121 kilometers) northwest of Las Vegas - occupies about 150 square miles (390 Square kilometers) of a dried up lakebed in the Great Basin Desert, Nevada. It was named after the grid it occupies on an old Nevada map and (came into existence in 1955 when aerospace company Lockheed Martin landed there to test the U 2, a high-altitude surveillance plane)? 4.There is an organisation known as SETI at the University of California, Berkeley. what do they do? 5. Fiction - what is the term used by the usaf to refer to the condition in which a person who is insane cant fly a plane, a person who flies the plane is insane, but the moment he wants to get off the circuit by feigning insanity, he becomes sane and therefore, fit to fly? 6.Shiv Ratan Agarwal, the MD of Shivdeep Industries started of by making a product for soldiers to carry with them for days together. This company now controls a 70% share in the Indian market. Name the company. 7.Over the years 'Lux', the Unilever bathing soap has used beautiful women, especially famous actresses, as models in its advertisements all over the world. Who was and remains to be the only man ever to model for Lux? 8.What invention of the confectioner George Smith was named after a famous race horse of the early 20th century? 9.As per the local legend, this place was originally covered by a lake called Satisar. It got its present name after a sage who drained the lake. name the place?